June 5, 2017

Stamp of Approval - Naturally Inspired Collection Blog Hop - DAY TWO


Hello everyone! Welcome to the Day Two of Stamp of Approval Naturally Inspired Collection Blog Hops. If you have arrived here from Chrissie Tobas blog then you are right on track. And your next stop would be Kristie Goulet. We, the design team have a loads of inspirations so please stop on all the spots and leave comments for a chance to win the entire collection. If you miss the hop kindly start again from HERE.

A little about Stamp of Approval or SOA:  Stamp of Approval is a hand picked, exclusive collection of products that were designed just for the box that releases quarterly. This box is full of stamping goodness and they sell out really quickly. So be sure to subscribe to the Wait List so you will be emailed when the collection goes on sale on June 7th.

Please head on over to Catherine Pooler’s website (the founder of Stamp of Approval) to sign up on the Waiting List, this is the best way to make sure you get YOUR Stamp of Approval box. Wait List members will be notified first through email when the box goes up for sale one hour before the collection is released to the general public! So make sure you sign up for the Waiting List so that you don’t miss out on your Stamp of Approval box!


The theme of our collection is NATURALLY INSPIRED so I am naturally inspired by Nature. I love beautiful and colorful leaves, flowers and birds. And I went with the water color technique! :)



image source from google images

I made several cards with this beautiful collection but today I will be showing you two cards and in the next coming days I will show you more! I will try to make more and more cards with this collection :)


This card features Birds of a Feather and Medallion Mix-up stamp sets.


inks used - rockin' red and midnight

I inked up the beautiful feather and spritzed some water and stamped repeatedly on the card base. Stamped the message on a die-cut circle and wrapped and tied a simple knot with white twine.


This card features Wild Garden, Simply the Best stamp sets and the Best Die.


I applied the same technique for this one also as mentioned in the above card. Die-cut the word best and sponged the ink at the bottom and adhered it onto the card base. Also stamped the sentiment beneath the die-cut as well.


Make sure to leave a comment on each blog because Catherine is giving away one of the Naturally Inspired Stamp of Approval collections for EACH day of the hops.   That is 3 boxes!  The more times you comment, the more chances you will have of to win! (If the winner has already purchased a box, they will be refunded!)

You've got until Thursday at 9:00AM EST to get those comments in. The winner will be announced on Catherine Pooler's blog!  Good luck and happy hopping!

BLOG HOP LIST

Deepti Stephens  (you are here)

May 31, 2017

Stay Magical


I'm back to my daily routine - designing, card making, blogging, making videos, editing and etc. It's so happy to be finally in my work station. I have been missing in action but finally I am back. And just to get my mojo back I have chosen one of my older cards as inspiration and created this card. To be honest I wasn't in the mood of coloring and I don't want to color them either so I kept the castles as is. :)


CARD DETAILS

I started by ink blending the background with Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Ink and added splatters of water. This created a beautiful oxidized effect to the background.


Next I stamped all the castles from Mudra's Stay Magical set with Archival Jet Black Ink, fussy cut them and adhered them onto the ink blended card panel.


Just to achieve that dimensional look, I used foam tape for the front images. Before adhering the images I stamped the sentiment from the same set with Archival Jet Black Ink.


And for some shimmer I applied a nice coat of Wink of Stella clear glitter and finished it off with a few clear sequins from Mudra.


I hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by. Take care and I will see you next time :)